President Trump signed an agreement Monday to heighten cooperation with Australia on rare earth materials and critical minerals. Trump signed the agreement alongside Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who visited the White House. Read more in The Hill here.
White House officials speculated Monday the 20-day federal shutdown could end this week with over 700,000 U.S. government workers currently furloughed. U.S. President Donald Trump‘s top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, predicted the government shutdown was “likely to end sometime this week” as it enteredits third week. Hassett added the administration could impose “stronger measures” if Democrats don’t...
Congratulations to consumers the world over, who on Friday were spared a new tax—for now at least. This week we warned that a United Nations agency you’ve never heard of was about to impose the first global carbon tax—on shipping. We’re pleased to report it blinked. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), an arm of the...
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) closed a loan guarantee to strengthen grid reliability and ensure lower electricity costs across the midwestern region of the United States. In accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order, Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid,...
Pittsburgh International Airport’s (PIT) new $1.7 billion terminal marks a defining moment in U.S. airport modernization—combining sustainable design, operational efficiency, and economic renewal for Western Pennsylvania. The 811,000-square-foot terminal, part of the airport’s Terminal Modernization Program (TMP), is built to streamline travel, reduce emissions, and serve as a model for resilient infrastructure investment. A Terminal Built for People —...
Tech companies in the AI race need power, and lots of it. They aren’t waiting around for the archaic U.S. power grid to catch up. In West Texas, natural-gas-fired power generation is under construction as part of the $500 billion Stargate project from OpenAI and Oracle. Gas turbines are in use at Colossus 1 and 2,...
As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they fed the line from the rocky shore down to the seafloor — home to the region’s orcas. The...
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has issued a new decree to restart international carbon emission trading after a four year hiatus, according to a copy of the decree seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The Southeast Asian country issued carbon market rules in 2021 that focused on compliance carbon markets rather than transactions in voluntary markets. Read...
The debate over rising electricity prices in Washington has revealed a strange paradox. Republicans blame climate policies and renewable energy subsidies for driving up costs. Democrats, meanwhile, claim rates are rising because the Trump administration rolled back clean-energy incentives. Both stories cannot be entirely accurate. Renewables cannot simultaneously be the cause and the cure for high prices.
I’m lucky to learn firsthand about some of the world’s most cutting-edge technologies. I’ve seen artificial intelligence ace an AP biology test, long before AI became an everyday tool. I’ve seen genetically modified mosquitoes stop malaria in its tracks. I’ve seen geothermal wells go 15,000 feet below the surface of the earth. But if I had to pick...
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